THE BABOONS. 
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gardens in the Eegent’s Park, was of a different temperament. There was a melancholy about this 
creature. He would climb his pole, ascend to his elevated house-top, and there sit for half an hour 
together, gazing wistfully at the distant portion of the park — which presented, when viewed from his 
position, the appearance of a thick wood — every now and then looking down, as if he was contrasting 
the smooth, sharp-pointed pole, to which they fettered him, with the rugged, living ‘ columns of 
the evergreen palaces’ of his fathers.” The Wanderoo often loses some of his tail in captivity ; but it 
should be, when full-grown, terminated by a tuft, which, in the imagination of some, lias been con- 
sidered quite lion-like. Having large cheek- pouches, this Monkey, very un-lion-like in disposition, 
feeds rather rapidly, and stores away much for future occasion. In doing this it either carries the 
food to the mouth with the hand or places its mouth to the object. It moves on all-fours, and has 
callosities ; and these, and the tail, give it a very baboon-like appearance. Nothing is known of their 
habits in their wild state. 
The geographical range of the Inui, or Macaques, is very great, and some of the twenty-seven 
species of which the genus is composed have very restricted wandering grounds, whilst others are 
found over a wide extent of country. As a group, they are found from N ortli Africa to China, and 
species are met with at Gibraltar and Eastern Thibet, and within range of the everlasting snow. They 
are found in the peninsulas of India, and in the great islands as far south-west as Timor and in the 
Philippines, but not in Celebes or in New Guinea. 
CHAPTEE VIII. 
THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS {continued) — 5. the baboons.* 
Early Accounts of the Baboon — Origin of the Name — Held as Sacred by the Egyptians — Used as the Emblem of Tlioth — 
Brought into Europe in the Middle Ages— Their Literature— General Description of the Family — Structural 
Peculiarities — Brain — Skull — Geographical Distribution — The Sacred Baboon- Found in great numbers in Abyssinia 
— Formidable Antagonists — Size and Colour of the Male and Female — Anecdotes Propensity for Spirituous Liquors 
and Thieving The Gelada Baboon- The Pig-Tailed Baboon -Usually called Chacma— Description of it Its 
Ferocity in Captivity — Le Vaillant’s Monkey — The Sphinx Baboon— Its Dexterity of Aim — The Anubis Baboon— 
Its Locality and Food— Method of Kunning — The Common Baboon — Often Found in Captivity— Anecdotes— Ana- 
tomical Peculiarities. 
John Leo, an ancient traveller, who wrote about his perils and adventures in “his nine bookes,” says, 
regarding his experience of Africa, that “of Apes there are divers and sundry kinds, those which have 
tayles being called in the African tongue Marine , and those which have none Babulni. They are found 
in the woods of Mauritania, and upon the mountains of Bugia and Constantia. They live upon grasse, 
and come and goe in great companies to feed in the cornfields ; and one of their companie, which 
standeth centinelle or keepeth watch and ward upon the borders, when he espyeth the husbandmen 
comining he cryeth out, and giveth, as it were, an alarm to his fellows, who every one of them flee 
immediately into the next woods, and betake themselves to the trees. The sliee Apes carry their 
wlielpes upon their shoulders, and will leape with them in that sort from one tree to another.” 
This author, although he probably mixed up other Monkeys with his Babumi , gives the key to the 
derivation of the word baboon, which has been tlie subject of keen controversy amongst those who are 
curious in such matters. Papio is the common term applied to these animals by the writers of the 
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ; it is “doglatin” for Babbo, which in modern language would be 
rendered Papa , arid Babuino is the diminutive of Babbo. Doubtless these terms bear some important 
and hidden reference to the opinions of the African races upon their relationship and connection witli 
the clever Apes, and upon their appreciation of the paternal habits of the patriarchs of the great 
# Cynocephalu ^ 
